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There’s no prayer like desire.

Tom Waits

The trick is to have a career and have a family. It’s like having two dogs that hate each other and you have to take them for a walk every night.
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Career Family Night Trick Yourself
I’m just trying to make a buck like everyone else.
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Money Myself
I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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Floor Machine Myself Pieces
She’s got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
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Forest Herself Live
Never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you’re dead.
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Death Drive Man Trust Yourself
The beginning of it starts at the end.
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Beginning End Start
It’s rather mystifying when you think about writing songs – where they come from, and how they’re born.
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Born Mysterious Thinking Writing Yourself
Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.
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Head Rain
Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.
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Friendship Pain Reality
People get frightened that success is going to take them out of life. They’re no longer going to be on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor; life will only be something you can get through the mail.
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People Scare Success Yourself
The way you do anything is the way you do everything.
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Action Style Way Yourself
We are all just monkeys with money and guns.
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Monkey Reality Weapon
Don’t plant your days they turn into weeds.
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Day Plant Yourself
We have a deficit of wonder right now.
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Imagination Right Wonder
If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Angel Devil Myself
The ocean doesn’t want me today, But I’ll come back tomorrow to play. The riptide is waging And the life guard’s away But the ocean doesn’t want me today.
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Guard Life Myself Ocean Play

There’s no prayer like desire.

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